Of Stories Left UntoldIn The Silmarillion, many things get a slight mention but are never properly explored. We challenge you to create a gap-filler where you explore an event, a character, or perhaps an item that The Silmarillion makes clear must have existed but where the full story is never told.

Holidays in ArdaJuly is the month where much of the world travels on holidays, seeking reprieve from their daily routine. Whether you will enjoy such an opportunity or not, this challenge asks you to take a mental reprieve by visiting your favorite place on Arda for a fictional "holiday."

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SWG 10th Birthday EventsCheck out our birthday page to send a card to an SWG member who deserves appreciation, play with our random Silmfic prompt generator, or participate in our writing contest and prize drawing!

July 2015 NewsletterJuly's newsletter has been posted! This month's issue contains news, announcements, articles of interest, and a list of stories added to the archive during May, as well as a biography of Beor by Oshun.

Fandom Growth Exchange 2015This is a fic+gift exchange for pairings which have less than ten published pieces within the Archive of Our Own archives. Sign-ups open on August 1 and close August 15. The Fandom Growth Exchange page has full details.

Fall Mythgard Courses, Including "Tolkien's War and Middle-earth"Mythgard's fall courses include a tempting line-up: Tolkien's War and Middle-earth, Introduction to Anglo-Saxon, and The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic. See the Mythgard Fall 2015 course page for more information.

Tol-Con: A Middle-earth Fan ConventionTol-Con is a new Middle-Earth themed convention in Minnesota. Join us for three full banquets, panels, activities, and more! See the Tol-Con website for more.

Library of Moria: International Day of Slash and International Day of FemslashThe Library of Moria will be celebrating the International Day of Slash with a challenge for fic, art or other media. The theme is Tarot - we will give you three cards for you to chose one or more as inspiration for your work. Please check the details at The International Day of Slash 2015 - Tarot challenge.

The Library of Moria will be celebrating the International Day of Femslash with a challenge for fic, art or other media. The challenge will be an Alphabet Soup. For each letter there will be a character, a place and a flower. Pick your letter and use one or more of the prompts as inspiration for your work. Please check the details at International Day of Femslash 2015 - Alphabet Soup challenge.

A New Tolkien Book The Story of Kullervo to Be Published!In August, HarperCollins will publish another of Tolkien's unfinished scholarly endeavors: The Story of Kullervo, the dark tale from the Finnish Kalevala that deeply inspired the tale of Turin Turambar. Tolkien's love for the Finnish languages also influenced his development of Quenya. OrissaPost has the full story on the forthcoming Story of Kullervo here.

Mythgard Institute: SilmFilm ProjectThe Mythgard Institute will be hosting a collaborative project to plan a (purely hypothetical!) Silmarillion film. Visit the SilmFilm forum for more information and to get involved.

Surveys Galore!Several survey projects are ongoing in an effort to collect data and learn more about our fandom. Help collect data on fan activities and demographics for a dissertation about the relationship between fans and creators of media. Fandom researcher KBS is requesting femslash fans to help out with a survey about femslash and fandom. Dawn's Tolkien fan fiction survey collects data on the habits, beliefs, and preferences of Tolkien fans who participate in reading and/or writing fan fiction. The World Hobbit Project is run by a team of media studies researchers who hope to glean more information on how audiences perceived the recent Hobbit films.

Calls for PapersTolkien Studies at Kalamazoo.The Tolkien at Kalamazoo group has been approved for three paper sessions at the International Medieval Congress held at Kalamazoo, Michigan in May 2016. 2016 Tolkien Studies sessions at Kalamazoo can be found here. Also see the CFP for the Asterisk Tolkien session seeking "papers which will further explore the continuum between philology and creation."

Tolkien Studies at Popular Culture/American Culture Association.The Tolkien Studies Area welcome proposals on any area of Tolkien Studies (the Legendarium, adaptations, reader reception and fan studies, media and marketing, pedagogy, medieval, modern, postmodern, etc.) from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective. Proposals are due October 1, 2015. See the Call for Papers for full details.

On the Footsteps of Dwarves: Different Readings of a Mythical Figure in Popular Culture.Chapters may explore different media (literature, movies, art, video games, comics, visual arts, television, etc.) and address topics on dwarves. Proposals are due October 15, 2015. See the post about the theme for complete details.

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"At last so desperate was the case of Barahir that Emeldir the Manhearted his wife (whose mind was rather to fight beside her son and her husband than to flee) gathered together all the women and children that were left, and gave arms to those that would bear them; and she led them into the mountains that lay behind, and so by perilous paths, until they came at last with loss and misery to Brethil."